Re: ERT XHTML Module for the WAI

At 10:07 AM -0500 11/20/00, Al Gilman wrote:
>In the past PF have encouraged ER to go ahead and prototype things like RDF
>application profiles to annotate the results of accessibility evaluation.  We
>never got specific about coordination plans for such a beast.  If it is "a
>module [or an application profile] for accessibility" it might be worth a
>cross-working-group task force.  Just because work products don't sort nicely
>according to our current group charters doesn't mean that they shouldn't be
>done.

I agree with Al -- I think the changing nature of the web means that many
of the assumptions which were made in 1997 need to be re-evaluated and
perhaps reorganized.  I don't see WAI having a good structure for dealing
with the challenges of the 21st century.

>This falls in the general area of "how does our division of labor adapt to the
>new layering of Web applications brought about by XML?"  Here we seem to have
>some agreement that this is a real question, but no consensus that we have an
>agreed answer.

I think we've also seen this in the discussion regarding guidelines for
design of XML languages (vs. the use of existing guidelines) in/around
the WCAG group.  We'll need to bring some good minds to bear on how to
solve the questions raised by widespread XML use, an issue that the WAI
has previously devoted little energy towards.  (I do note the WAI note
about XML accessibility, just so nobody feels left out!)

--Kynn
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Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com>
http://www.kynn.com/

Received on Monday, 20 November 2000 17:35:28 UTC